Ranking FH's Other Books

[Cro-Mags]

Hi all, just stumbled upon this forum today.

Anyway, I've had enough of those Dune spin-offs (that's a whole 'nother thread), and I'm trying to scratch that itch with F.H.'s non-Dune material. I've read the Dosadi Experiment and Santaroga Barrier and enjoyed both. Reading Destination : Void now and I'll be honest, I'm finding it a little too - clinical and technical. There's a great used book store near me that has them all, but now that I'm slogging through D:V I find myself wondering if I'm not missing out by grabbing something else instead.

I'm wondering from you folks what you'd consider his Top 5 non-Dune books. I'm not looking for a hard ranking per se, just a sense of what you think I should seek out next that I haven't already.

Any help is appreciated. My apologies if you covered this in another thread, I couldn't see anything similar.

[Freakzilla]

Reading Destination : Void now and I'll be honest, I'm finding it a little too - clinical and technical.

There is a lot of technobable but the ending makes it all worthwhile.

[Cro-Mags]

I don't necessarily mind technobabble, but it is very heavy in this book, and a lot of it is dated (references to analog technology and relays and whatnot - I'm willing to accept it's a product of it's era, but it can detract at points). I'm sticking with it, but I keep wondering if I'm not missing out on something better from him.

BTW nice av.

[SandChigger]

Don't worry, there's going to be a new edition in a few years with all the technobabble updated and the gaps filled in.

It will be called Destination: UltraVoid.

[A Thing of Eternity]

Welcome.

The top 5 non Dune books:

First 3 would be the "sequels" to D:V (really far removed from D:V's style, and have Bill Ransom as a coauthor, in fact the last book was written mostly by Bill after FH died).

Then the 2 ConSentiency books, Whipping Star and Dosadi Experiment.

[Lundse]

I'm wondering from you folks what you'd consider his Top 5 non-Dune books.

Welcome!

I'll bite:
The White Plague
The Santaroga Barrier
Destination: Void
The Jesus Incident
The Dragon in the Sea


Not ranked or anything...

[Freakzilla]

I don't necessarily mind technobabble, but it is very heavy in this book, and a lot of it is dated (references to analog technology and relays and whatnot - I'm willing to accept it's a product of it's era, but it can detract at points). I'm sticking with it, but I keep wondering if I'm not missing out on something better from him.

BTW nice av.

Relays are still heavily used today... just not in computers. Keep in mind, they were building from scratch with what was available.

[lotek]

Whipping Star is my personal favourite

[Serkanner]

My favourite non-Dune Frank Herbert novels are (no specific order):

The Jesus incident
Destination: Void
The White Plague
The eyes of Heisenberg
The Godmakers

[Omphalos]

Here's my list:

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[Freakzilla]

Here's my list:

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Is it me or are most of the cover images stretched vertically? The first one and the last few look OK.

[SandChigger]

Whoa.

That's what they would look like if you were viewing them in close orbit around a black hole.

[Omphalos]

You guys using MSIE? Catch a clue and ditch that bitch. Firefox is the way of the future.

[Freakzilla]

Google chrome 5.0.375.70

[Omphalos]

Google Chrome does the same thing for me. So that one should be ditched too.

[Freakzilla]

It looks good in IE.

[Omphalos]

It looks good in IE.

MSIE screws up all other things, especially fonts and CSS pages.

[SandChigger]

They're super-stretched in Safari, too.

[Cro-Mags]

Thanks for the feedback.

I have to admit, the lazy part of me was wishing for consensus ("yes, this is our officially sanctioned Top 5"), but I appreciate the fact that none of you listed the same 5 even more, since it tells me you guys are more critical and not just a hive-mind.

BTW everything looks fine in Netscape Navigator.
j/k

[Freakzilla]

...it tells me you guys are more critical and not just a hive-mind.

We're all Sandchigger's sock puppets, he's just very creative and thorough.

[SandChigger]

Yes, I'm MUCH MORE than just a pretty face...

INCOMING!!!

[Freakzilla]

My eyes! Where's that spoon...

[inhuien]

I can not see what I do not want to see. I can not see what I do not want to see. I can not see what I do not want to see. I can not see what I do not want to see. I can not see what I do not want to see. I can not see what I do not want to see.

I did however see you're cover thumbnails, teeny small but correctly formed, Opera 10.53.

[Serkanner]

I need medicine ... NOW!







.. That's better.

[DuneFishUK]

Thanks Serkanner - good save

Oh and, no love for Hellstrom?